On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > In the website project I came across this string: > > "Not the version you wanted?" > ... > Please change the question to: > > "Is this the version you wanted?"
"Not the X you wanted?" and "Is this the X you wanted?" have different meanings. The former implies that you are about to offer the person an alternative to X (or tell them that they have no choice because there isn't another dinner/plane flight/taxi cab driver), while the later implies that you are going to give them X, and then perhaps later give them an Else-clause for some other alternative. I don't know where you saw this particular text, but one place it appears is on the download page: https://www.libreoffice.org/download --- Download LibreOffice LibreOffice Linux - deb (x86), version 4.0.4, English (US). Not the version you wanted? Change System, Version or Language --- I'm a native English speaker, so the text scans just fine to me. If someone asked me to re-write that text to avoid the "Not"-y part, I'd suggest: "Need a different build of LibreOffice? Change System, Version or Language" (I don't like the double-use of the word 'version', but changing the first one to 'build' might be too esoteric for many of our users) Cheers, --R -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
